Naturally Frugal Living
Maggie from Family Frugal Fun is sharing how she repurposes egg shells and uses them to start her seedlings. If you’re into growing some of your own food then you know its time to start your seeds. This year instead of purchasing a seed starter kit, try saving your egg shells for a week or [...]
I am always anxious to start gardening. The general rule of thumb is plant cold-hardy vegetables 4 – 6 weeks before the last frost, but I just can’t wait that long! Our last frost isn’t until mid June! Since I am impatient, I have come up with several different ways to create frugal cloches for [...]
My son always goes through a growth spurt in late February/ early March. It isn’t warm enough to buy summer clothes and the winter clothes are really picked over at our local stores. I find that I have better luck finding the items we need if I buy him second-hand clothing. Whether your child has [...]
Normally, I wouldn’t share something so mundane. However, in this new world of technology where we are exposed to so many clever ideas, I think there is more pressure on us to take a simple concept and make it more involved than it needs to be. Don’t get me wrong, I like pretty things and [...]
Annie Jones, from Haphazard Homestead, is sharing frugal, green recipes for household cleaners, laundry soaps, and hand and bath soaps. Going green and going natural doesn’t have to be an expensive venture when it comes to homemade soaps and cleaners. Whether it’s bath soap, laundry detergent or all-purpose cleaners, making these at home can be [...]
In the early ’90′s I made the switch from bar soap to liquid soap. Since replacing the disposable soap dispensers was expensive and wasteful, I bought ceramic soap dispensers and bought large refill bottles of liquid soap. I continued doing this for 18 years, but last summer as I was buying a refill bottle I spied [...]
Andrew was invited to a ’60′s party. The mom who invited us encouraged the kids to wear tie-dyed t-shirts. Andrew did not have a tie-dyed t-shirt or anything else in his wardrobe that would pass for ’60′s attire, so I looked for dye when I went grocery store. I could not find any dye at my local [...]
Yesterday I shared that I discovered that I was out of both vegetable broth and chicken broth AFTER my dinner guests had arrived. The kitchen emergency would have been pretty obvious if I had sent my husband to the store, so I improvised a substitute for vegetable broth. The first thing I did this morning [...]
Last week Sheila from To Love, Honor, and Vacuum tweeted the question “could you stop shopping for a year?” and included a link to I’ve Got Enough Stuff. The article takes a humorous approach to our over consumption while asking a serious question: Do you have too much stuff? I tweeted back to @SheilaGregoire that [...]
My friend, Shana, often shares pictures of her adorable little boy, Blaze. In one of those pictures I saw what I thought was a brilliant, beyond brilliant idea and asked her to share it with you, as well as a little bit about herself. This last week here in GA we have had some beautiful [...]
